National Blog

Sigh. At times the Liberty movement resembles the People’s Front of Judaea from Monty Python’s Life of Brian (warning adult language in link) more concerned with petty infighting then advancing the cause. One of the favorite pastimes of [...]

Another terrible school shooting took place in Parkland, Florida last week and unfortunately many politicians and pundits have used the tragedy – as they often do – to push their own agenda. Many will use the tragedy to argue that Americans [...]

The Good
Reduces spending by $48.4 billion, including $25.8 billion from eliminating programs.
Increases the ability of Medicare Part D plans to negotiate for lower drug prices.
Adopts a two-year penny plan to reduce [...]

The Senate will be considering immigration reform. Senate Majority Leader McConnell filed cloture on the Immigration bill last Friday immediately after passage of the budget. McConnell is using a House-passed bill (H.R. 2579) as a shell and [...]

In addition to funding for a border wall and other border security measures, immigration hardliners are sure to push to include mandatory E-Verify in any immigration legislation considered by Congress. E-Verify is a (currently) voluntary program [...]

Representative Thomas Massie is not only a champion of Auditing the Fed, a non-interventionist foreign policy, and food freedom. He is also the leading champion of safe schools.
In 2017, Representative Massie introduced the Safe Schools Act [...]

Another great movie to watch in Black History Month is Detroit, which focuses on the Aliers Hotel incident that took place during the riots of 1967. The riots started after Detroit police raided an unlicensed, after hours club on the office of a [...]

The Good
Reduces red tape to speed up the permitting process for state and local government and private sector transportation projects.
Gives the Veterans Administration flexibility to use vacant properties for commercial and [...]

During negotiations over last week’s budget deal, there was an effort to add The CREATES Act to the bill as a “pay-for.” CREATES aims to bring generics drugs to market and could reduce Medicare and Medicaid spending by as much as $3.8 [...]

The Senate passed the big spending budget bill by a vote of 71-28 and the House passed it by a vote of 240-186. Sixty-seven House Republicans voted no and fifteen Republican Senators voted no. Remember that next time someone tells you the [...]